Centres and peripheries in banking

• Introduction

• Part I
• Global Centres and Networks

• Trade and finance in the Great War

• German banks and neutral Scandinavia 1914-1918

• From the Levant to the City of London: mercantile credit in the Greek international commercial networks of the 18th and 19th centuries

• The City of London as a global financial centre, 1880-1939: finance, foreign exchange, and the First World War

• The rise of Hong Kong and Tokyo as international financial centres after 1950

• Part II
• Banks as Integrators

• Between the dollar-sterling gold points

• USA and Britain, 1791-1914

• The confidence in a new currency: the introduction of the Mark in Germany 1871-1876

• The Banque de France and the emergence of a national financial market in France during the 19th century

• Capital movements, exchange rates and market integration: the Baltic area 1850-1913

• Part III
• The Role of Banks in Mercantile and Industrial Credit

• Personal and impersonal exchange

• The role of reputation in banking: some evidence from the 19th and early 20th century banks' archives

• The political economy of commercial banking in Sweden: a bird's-eye view of the relations between industry and banking over 150 years

• Merchants and credit in the Southern and Eastern Baltic areas, 1500-1800

• Lender of last resort in a peripheral economy with a fixed exchange rate: financial crises and monetary policy in Sweden under the Silver and Gold Standards, 1834-1913

• Part IV
• Bank Archives and History

• The archives of a German commercial bank as a mirror of time

• Preservation of electronic information: a case study of the information systems department at Svenska Handelsbanken

• Using history and storytelling in mergers and branding

• Bibliography

• Index